Partition Magic Problems

[Daedro]

Hello,

I have 2 hard drives, an AMD Athlong computer, with Windows 2000 installed.

I have had many problems before, but this one its far beyond them. I partitioned all the space on my hard drives, and eventually formatted them. When I formatted I restart and now my partitions are corrupt.. is there any way I can get rid of the partitions ENTIRELY?

Where exactly is the data for partitions stored?

If I replaced my hard drive would the partitions be gone, or my motherboard?

Any instructions on how I can get rid of the partitions? I tried deleting them but it just says they are corrupt (so I can't delete them,) so I've tried changing the format and everything to get to deleting them, nothing in the options in PM works.

Thanks

[Chuckiechan]

Welcome to Techimo!

I'm not clear on what you are trying to do, but it sounds like your existing operating system (Win2K) has partitions that you cannot reach due to something you did in Partition Magic?

And you also have no data to protect?

Are we on the same page here? If so, Try this:

Boot with the windows 2000 cd. (you may need to go into bios, to make "first boot device = cd rom")

It will do a bunch of stuff and eventually get to the point where it shows which partitons you have. There are instructions as to how you can delete them there. After you are pretty sure they are deleted, re boot with the Windows 2000 cd to verify that you have one partition. Then install your operating system there.

Install your service packs next, then if you want more partitons install Partition Magic and make them. You can also format and parition your other HDD using Partition Magic, also. Do make rescue disks! Parition Magic is sometime called Parition Voo-Doo!

[Daedro]

Originally posted by Chuckiechan
Welcome to Techimo!

I'm not clear on what you are trying to do, but it sounds like your existing operating system (Win2K) has partitions that you cannot reach due to something you did in Partition Magic?

And you also have no data to protect?

Are we on the same page here? If so, Try this:

Boot with the windows 2000 cd. (you may need to go into bios, to make "first boot device = cd rom")

It will do a bunch of stuff and eventually get to the point where it shows which partitons you have. There are instructions as to how you can delete them there. After you are pretty sure they are deleted, re boot with the Windows 2000 cd to verify that you have one partition. Then install your operating system there.

Install your service packs next, then if you want more partitons install Partition Magic and make them. You can also format and parition your other HDD using Partition Magic, also. Do make rescue disks! Parition Magic is sometime called Parition Voo-Doo!

Yes I wanted to know how to delete partitions through bios, I've heard it can be done bios/dos or whatnot. This sounds like it, just a simplier feature. Thanks, I'll give it a try.

I just meant my partitions are set for the entire hard drive and are corrupt, I just wanted to know how to delete them outside of Partition Magic (since it won't let me).

[LeftCoast]

Try using www.killdisk.com to write zeros to your drive, bringing back your HDD to as close to new as possible. Then, you just reinstall the OS normally.

There are other utilities to do this, but KD is free and not HDD-specific.

[Chuckiechan]

Keep us posted on your success.

CC

[John Prophet]

the partitions are on the hard drive..they have nothign to do with the motherboard.

you could boot to a boot floppy and run "fdisk" and do "remove non dos partitions"

[Daedro]

Is there any way to do that fdisk without a floppy? I don't have a floppy drive, we've past the 90's

I have dos on a bootable disk...

I'm in win 2000 setup, i got setup, delete partition, etc.. but its the same as Partition Magic Pro, I can't delete the partition.. error, restart. Ugh.

[VHockey86]

www.bootdisk.com has CD versions of many of the boot floppy disks. Just download and burn the cd images (load the image, dont burn the image file as a data backup) with your fav cd burning software

[LeftCoast]

Originally posted by Daedro
Is there any way to do that fdisk without a floppy? I don't have a floppy drive, we've past the 90's

I have dos on a bootable disk...

I'm in win 2000 setup, i got setup, delete partition, etc.. but its the same as Partition Magic Pro, I can't delete the partition.. error, restart. Ugh.

http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm

D/L the ISO image, and use the image to burn a bootable cd-r, then in your bios set the comp to boot from cd-rom.

Also, Quote:"I have had many problems before, but this one its far beyond them."

Are your HDDs jumpered properly? You may want to set both jumpers to "cable select", and put the one you want to install the OS to on the far end of cable. Are you using an 80 pin cable?

[Dj-Icer]

You can't do drag and drop stuff. Also partitioning a drive and dragging it back and forth can cause a harmful damage to your HDD.